Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
My definition of an expert in any field is a person who knows enough about what's really going on to be scared.
P. J. Plauger
Sure, it's overkill. But you can never have too much overkill...
Anonymous
It is not a language's weakness but its strengths that control the gradient of its change: Alas, a language never escapes its embryonic sac.
Alan J. Perlis
A good programmer looks both ways before crossing a one-way street.
Anonymous
Every program has (at least) two purposes: the one for which it was written, and another for which it wasn't.
Alan J. Perlis
Get into a rut early: Do the same process the same way. Accumulate idioms. Standardize. The only difference(!) between Shakespeare and you was the size of his idiom list - not the size of his vocabulary.
Alan J. Perlis
Don't have good ideas if you aren't willing to be responsible for them.
Alan J. Perlis
The most likely way for the world to be destroyed, most experts agree, is by accident. That's where we come in; we're computer professionals. We cause accidents.
Nathaniel Borenstein
Linux is only free if your time has no value.
Jamie Zawinski
Debugging is like farting - it's not so bad when it's your own code.
Anonymous